The next in our Legacy Equipment series is U-matic! You can still register for the series and receive links to the previous session recordings. https://loom.ly/glwoYg4
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The next in our Legacy Equipment series is U-matic! You can still register for the series and receive links to the previous session recordings. https://loom.ly/glwoYg4
“I also want to assure you this is not an experimental approach. Over 60 state and local archives nationwide have partnerships with Ancestry,” https://loom.ly/mZtAbGc
The Library of Congress will preserve Wellesnet’s 25 years of Orson Welles film scholarship, ensuring the website’s rich digital history remains accessible for generations of researchers. https://loom.ly/A6fDawU
From AMIA 2022, this week's member Screening Room common misconceptions on how to digitize assets with a demonstration of a U-matic tape and EIAJ Tape Digitization and equipment. Look for the link in your inbox.
Archivist Ted Ryan on Lego's visit to the archives - "My biggest takeaway through this whole process was to see the lengths that the LEGO Icons team went to ensure the historical accuracy of the kit." https://loom.ly/RIPkpDw
Myrient, one of the largest online video game archives, has announced that it will shut down on March 31, 2026. https://loom.ly/EGVMQQQ
Coming up in March! Check out trustarchives.org and AMIAonline.org for more information.
This week's Screening Room is an interview with David Gibson, in which he explores the evolution of gaming and why preserving video game history matters. https://loom.ly/nYLKFDU
The University of Connecticut is home to some 1,000 protest buttons, about 400 of which have been digitized. https://loom.ly/D-f-FFQ
This four-part webinar series provides an overview of basic maintenance, diagnosis, and safety considerations for a range of legacy formats. The next session focuses on VHS - join us March 5! Miss the session on CRT or Audio? Sessions are available on demand. https://loom.ly/boiKLGY
The Joint Technical Symposium is next week! A great lineup of speakers in Canberra, and virtual registration is still open. https://loom.ly/DyoTTjk
In 2018, a team of filmmakers premiered a four-episode documentary series on the 50th anniversary of Bobby Kennedy’s Presidential campaign. This week's Screening Room is a discussion of how these filmmakers explored a deep wilderness of archival media. Look for the link in your inbox.
It cites a change in its content management system as the reason for pulling the plug. https://loom.ly/SQy4AzQ
The discovery of the lost files was born out of two coincidences, almost 80 years apart. https://loom.ly/zaN-F4U
The C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice has released the 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐴𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. Download the report here: https://loom.ly/-KaXo8E Community feedback is invited here: c2pa@loc.gov.
The Legacy Equipment Repair and Maintenance Series starts Wednesday with 1/4" Audio and Cassettes. This four-part series provides an overview of basic maintenance, diagnosis, and safety considerations for legacy equipment. https://loom.ly/boiKLGY
This week's Screening Room features a Keynote Conversation between filmmaker Allison Anders and Maya Montañez Smukler, head of the UCLA Film & Television Archive Research and Study Center. Look for the link in your inbox.
Amid the diaristic entries, which average thirty minutes in length, are spoken word poems, essays, interviews, and mentions of national and local politics and news. https://loom.ly/dSCXFfU
Titled “Inside the Vault,” the traveling and virtual display launches in conjunction with the tour and draws from the Library of Congress’ Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II collections. https://loom.ly/COd1mgY
Archives continue to depend on legacy audio and video playback equipment that is no longer manufactured, increasingly difficult to service, and essential to ongoing preservation and access work. https://loom.ly/iYSq9n0
The Highland Theatre, which opened in 1925 as a vaudeville venue and movie house, was designed by architect Lewis Arthur Smith, whose other credits include the Vista Theatre in Los Feliz, the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood and the Rialto Theatre in Pasadena. https://loom.ly/gwhEFic
A look back a decade: this week’s Screening Room revisits 2015 and looks at Designing and Building the Post-Analogue Audiovisual Archive. Keep an eye out for the link in your inbox.
Looking back at a list of films released since 2000, that may now deserve a second look—or first-time discovery. https://loom.ly/TyvRKFU
“I used to think, If homework is watching a movie, that is the best homework ever,” Craig Erpelding, a film professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told me. “But students will not do it.” https://loom.ly/YIYdKEI
Very few documentary filmmakers have won two Academy Awards during their career. Among that rare group is Barbara Kopple, who has supervised and approved a new 4K restoration of American Dream. https://loom.ly/Y0yVfro
The Nontheatrical Student Essay Award is a collaboration between the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG and AMIA. The submission deadline has been extended to March 15! https://loom.ly/mHUZlzk
The notion of preserving for the future such a low form of entertainment as film (‘an amusement fit for children and half-wits’) was once dismissed as pointless and unrealistic. This week's Screening Room examines at the beginnings of the archive movement. Look for the link in your inbox.
The 25 films selected this year for the National Film Registry by @librarycongress date back to the silent film through 2014, all chosen for their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage. See the full list here: https://loom.ly/El3-q8U
